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Sharing a Shell
- Narrated by: Julian Clary
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Children's Audiobooks, Animals & Nature
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When Crab finds a new shell, he doesn’t want to share it with anyone - especially not a blobby purple anemone and a tickly bristleworm. But life in the rock pool proves tougher than Crab thinks and he soon finds he needs his new housemates.
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- Follow the journey
- 08-05-19
prefer the book
love this story but not keen on the narrator . didn't seem to flow very well
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- Frank Curley
- 15-02-15
Great teaching tool
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Will use this in a special needs setting, the children love to listen to the book as we flip the pages. There is a great lesson in sharing and getting along - the narrator has a soothing voice the children enjoy